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Queued Up and Ready To Go
My last post was inspirational. It's time to show off some stuff.
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I haven't eaten cereal as a meal since I was in college
Or some other unclear title that's actually about what I've been working on recently.
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It's a celebration: I still feel like I'm 25
A classic 90s-era, mid-30s denial of reality has finally set in, IRCB hits 400 episodes, and I'm planning to move off of Substack.
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Fumbling with AWS
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The problem with comic book data
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I just want to read comic books
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Bootstrapped React
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Let's kick this off
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I'm Learning! I'm really Learning!
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I'm Learning! I'm really Learning!
I had originally written a really dumb pun for this title, so be happy with this title, okay?
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2024 In Comic Reading Habits
Let's talk about how I read comics last year and maybe I'll give you a little treat.
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No new code developments this week
I spent hours on trying to get AWS Lambda to work for me and all I got was this endless anger. This week, I'm going to talk a little about IRCB and a…
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Who even needs authentication?
More like: I'm not the kind of developer who likes this stuff, so I gotta find a way to make this easy for myself...
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The problem with comic book data
Or: I rant a bit and then tell you how I'm solving this problem for Just Read Comics
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Bootstrapped React
I've basically slapped Bootstrap and React together because I was moving fast and I'm maybe starting to regret it
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I just want to read comic books
Let me explain what it is we're all doing here, okay?
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Attempting to Code
Attempting to Code
Mike is a professional web developer building a site to find where you can read comic books (and giving his thoughts about comics books)
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